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It’s a bright November morning in Puerto San Luis la Herradura, on El Salvador's south coast. The sun is high, the tide is low and local fishermen are returning to evaluate the dawn’s catch. Nearby, pupusas– a traditional favourite similar to a corn tortilla - are simmering on a hot...

The UN and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation agreed today to work together more closely to provide people with life-saving assistance during humanitarian emergencies.
The agreement was signed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by Valerie Amos, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, and...

Three years after Mark Bowden first arrived in Somalia, he finds himself at the centre of the deepest and most acute humanitarian emergency in the world. On 20 July, a famine was declared in large parts of the south, and the situation has continued to deteriorate.
Tens of thousands of people have died,...

Lisa Grande, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, today strongly condemned yesterday’s aerial bombardment which struck a temporary camp for displaced people and refugees in South Sudan.
Five bombs hit the area of Yida, in Unity State, on the afternoon of 10 November, with two...

One hundred days after famine was declared in parts of southern Somalia, humanitarian agencies have reached more than half of the four million people who urgently need help.
But after months of drought, agencies are now struggling to tackle a rise in cholera and other water-borne diseases due to seasonal...